SanDisk has been taking advantage of their long experience in the flash memory market to develop a line of SSDs which, apart from the controller, are all made in house. That way they only have to license a controller, in this case SandForce's 2181, avoiding the costs of developing and improving their own controller. The cost might be a bit high at $215 when you compare it to some of the deals currently available on the previous generation of SSDs. [H]ard|OCP saw better performance than they expected from the older SF-2181 but still not to the level of the current generation of controllers. What helped make this particular drive more attractive was the Toolkit which makes updating your firmware quite easy and remarkably low power consumption.

"The SanDisk Extreme 240GB is SanDisk's SandForce-powered SSD. Featuring Toggle Mode NAND and the SF-2181 with the latest firmware we give the SanDisk Extreme a spin. How does it stand up to its enthusiast competitors in terms of steady state and out of the box performance?"